As Craig noted on Facebook, the Red Dawn remake is starting to look like a documentary.

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There’s little doubt the US foreign policy the last four years has been something of an unmitigated disaster. The GOP, chastised by public pushback (and a systematic Democrat smear campaign) over the war in Iraq, is loathe to press for a strong stance that even contains the possibility of opening a new war front. Hence the dithering over Iran’s relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons. A nuclear armed Iran would have potentially catastrophic consequences for decades, but the GOP can only see the potential for short term electoral problems should the press the White House and the public for a strong stance.

Most reporters end up reporting on subjects which they know little about. Not surprisingly, they therefore tend to get a lot of stuff wrong. How many times have you read an article about a subject with which you are very familiar, and shaken your head at how someone could get basic precepts to wrong? Move on the the next article, and not realize that the author of that article likely makes the same sort of errors, only you don’t know enough to notice them? That’s the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect.

Inside the Army has a nice little post showing this basic tendency to flub in action.